I’ve added pins through a large print for alignment, but when coloring, the interior color of each piece is wanting to stick to the original color through out instead of switching with the rest of the print. As you can see in the pictures, it starts off good with yellow, but the top half of the print needs no yellow and would be much more efficient if I could get that center section around the pins to switch to white. Coloring by layer doesn’t make a difference, any advice, or direction to a similar post would be greatly appreciated!! Happy Printing!
could you send screen shot of the prepare tab or un-sliced painted model
Assuming this is a merged model of at least two parts, the order of the parts may be causing your issue.
Choose the item you wish to be prominent by dragging it down to the bottom of the list in the object view of the prepare tab.
my only objects are the main one then the 3 pins I’ve added, it wants to keep the main one at the top then I can re arrange the 3 pins below it, but that doesn’t make a difference for me
I think I finally understand what you are after.
Try adding a modifier primitive cylinder to your model (in the same way you added you negative part cylinders) with a diameter big enough to encompass the three alignment cylinders.
Change the Z position to start at the same height as the white portion begins.
Change it to be white, leave all other properties alone.
Try slicing that.
Theoretically it should make the middle white as you desire.
I believe the problem you are describing is because you have painted the model which automatically decides how far it should go back to the centre of the model in combination with your “pins”.
That was a good work around for my problem, saved me 600 filament changes on just that 1 piece. Thanks!
You are welcome.
I probably wasn’t asking the question right, but I have found a better solution to the problem now. By going into each piece on the boolean tab and eliminating the negative cylinders/pins it now colors how I need it to, and I no longer have those long goofy pins to deal with while working on it! Thanks, again for all the comments and help!
